Cat frustration

This is the most evil of my cats - Liffi...

The night between saturday and sunday he was getting ready to attack poor Otto again, but this time he didn´t succeed, since Jonas and Lotte were here, and Jonas took Otto in his lap and held him away from EvilLiffi...

But, Liffi is no fool, even if he is evil, so seeing that Otto was out of reach for the moment, he decided to say the cat version of "Fuck you!" by finding an annoying place to just pee a little... (Couldn´t he just learn how to show the cat-paw version of the middle finger!?)

I didn´t believe my eyes at first, but that little bastard put his furry ass over a green bag, where I normally have a lot of CD:s (since I never know in the morning what I might want to listen to in the evening... that´s why I usually carry around about 25-30 CD:s... yes, I know it sounds weird, but I´m the one doing the carrying...) - the only good thing about all this is that the bag was empty at this time - since after Liffi´s short encounter with the bag it was definitely full of piss...

Otto didn´t get beaten up this time - but I´m afraid it is only a question of time...

I don´t agree with Lotte, though, who said "Just get rid of that cat!" (meaning Liffi...) She just doesn´t understand! Evil or not, he is Liffi, not something you get rid of after having shared your house and your life with him for almost 9 years...

(She just doesn´t understand...)

Frissi

This morning Frissi was just too cute... But he is still the main suspect when it comes to shitting in the wrong places...

Today I did it - first thing in the morning...

Yes, I really did it!!
I changed the white stuff in the kitty litterbox... It was about time, since it was getting really soiled.
I heard that there was some litterbox activity downstairs while I was still in bed, but I was too lazy to go down and make the cat go outside to do what he was about to do. So, when I finally managed to get up, I had no other choice but to change the whole thing...
Now I feel I have really gotten something done today, so I can be lazy from now on - if I want to...

It´s a really beatiful day, the sun is shining and it´s about 10 below zero. Of course there are things I should do, but most of them can wait.
(the picture of my house is from around christmas - the sun is a lot brighter now... but still, winter can be quite nice here - at least if you don´t have to spend too much time ouside)

I had lunch at my parents´ house again, and my father was eating, talking and even making some stupid jokes... I know he´s not getting any younger, or even permanently better, but as long as he doesn´t get worse too quickly, I think I can handle it, for the time being...

Been on the road again

Lately, being on the road seems to have become my best way of handling anxiety and other uncomfortable mental states...
I don´t know why, but that´s just how it is.
On thursday I drove down to Helsinki/Borgå, with Guillaume as a co-driver. It felt a little bit like I had done the same thing before (- probably because I had... We were just one person less in the car this time...) We stopped five times, for different reasons, and managed to make the trip last almost 7 hours. After a short stop in Helsinki I continued to Borgå, where I slept too few hours - but against all odds I did get myself back to Helsinki by 9 a.m. on friday. In the evening I continued to Turku with Brita and Jannik as passengers, and on saturday I drove back to Nykarleby with my brother and nephew in the car. This tour was not as crazy as the one in January - but it was fun. Being in the car I disconnect from many things that normally bother me, and I just drive - or sit and listen to music, or talk, or think or ... I don´t know. Can´t explain why this is so relaxing, but it just is.

Otto

I can´t understand why it has to be so difficult to get a picture of my 4th cat, Otto, posted here in this blog, but either I have no decent pictures of him, or if I have, they happen to be somewhere else, or whatever... But now I finally think I will be able to do it.

All cats´ day, or whatever day it is...

Suddenly I felt I had to write something just because today is the 14th of February - but then I decided that I don´t have to do anything... But I do want to post a picture of Frissi where he is really cute - if I can figure out how to do it... And I also noticed I have no pictures of Otto on this blog, which is so unfair, isn´t it? [Not only is he getting hurt by Liffi all the time, but he is also ignored by me... How could I do this to him?] This has to change, right now! That is, if I get this shit computer to co-operate with me... It´s so slow right now, full of spyware and other crap, I suppose.

Going back

I´m going back to El Hierro - in about one month... Maybe I´m crazy, but I just need to go back there. I was in such a bad mood last week when I could not take the direct flight from KOK to TFS, but instead I found a flight from HEL to TFN, which is even better, because then we can continue to El Hierro from the same airport we arrive in, so we don´t need to spend the night in Tenerife...

I have hard time keepin my cats from killing each other - Otto has been hurt again, but I think he is getting better now, so I don´t need to take him to the vet, not just yet. I´m seriously thinking of finding a new home for him, because the situation is getting worse every month.

There was a wet party in my house on Saturday - and I´m still trying to recover from that one. But it was fun...
Not everything is fun in this piece of shit town, though, because it has come to my knowledge that there´s a person in this town going around telling my friends to tell me that he´ll see me in court... I hope he´s joking, but on the other hand, he might be even crazier than I thought he was. I´m not sure if he wants to see me in court because of some bills he thinks I should pay, or if he plans to sue me for telling him that he´s an idiot - in a crowded lunch restaurant... Whatever. I really wouldn´t like to waste any more energy on him right now.
And who cares, anyway?
I´m going back to El Hierro!

Back in my own little cat-body-fluid-soaked existence

Last week at this time I was still in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, strolling around aimlessly, enjoying my last day of relative freedom from kitty litter duty etc.
On Tuesday I arrived in KOK (that is, Pietarsaari/Kokkoloa airport, situated in Kruunupyy, which can create some confusion, especially when all the names also come in Swedish Jakobstad/Karleby and Kronoby... "Where the hell am I?!" was the first thing my friend Satu asked when she got off the plane at KOK a few years ago... ).

Coming home was not easy this time - since I really would have liked to stay for some time in El Hierro. Maybe a few weeks, or a couple of months... I don´t know. I can´t explain it, but let´s put it this way: I had less of a hard time being in my own company when I was in El Hierro ... Does it make sense? Never mind.

It took me a few days to crash land in my own existence, but since I had work to do, and a husband on his way home for the weekend, I just had to manage, somehow. Things were not made easier by the cats - though, since I stumbled on traces of fresh and dry cat-body-fluids everywhere...
Liffi and Otto have kept on fighting, and it´s mostly Otto´s blood that is shed - but they had also found the time to shit in the wrong places... It´s enough to get even a balanced person a little bit desperate. And I'm quite desequilibrada (it sounds better in Spanish...) to begin with. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the little puddle of pee I managed to put my hand right into... Guillaume has been trying to keep the cats from killing each other, locking them into separate rooms for the night and so on, but still he had to take Otto to the vet one more time while I was a way, to have her see to a new wound that Liffi had inflicted on him. I´m really considering sending Liffi to Sweden, because all this started when Kjell moved to Stockholm...

But, I haven´t got the time to write more now. Just wanted to let R know that I´m back in my little house, trying hard to avoid all the puddles and turds.
More later.